I’ve bought and returned more smart home gadgets than I’d like to admit, mostly because half of them refused to talk to each other. A lightbulb that only worked with its own app, a plug th...
I used to think of my outdoor lights as exactly that — lights. Something that came on at dusk and off at dawn, nothing more sophisticated than a photocell from 1985. Then a neighbor’s Ring camer...
I’ll admit it — for years I treated my voice assistant like a glorified kitchen timer. “Set 10 minutes.” “What’s the weather.” That’s about as deep as my voic...
I’ll be honest — I didn’t expect smart lighting to become the thing I check obsessively every morning before coffee, but here we are. A few months ago, my “smart” setup was bas...